Crazy days!

In the classroom, there are around 40 kids but I’m all alone. Why, you ask? Well, the majority of the forty will do all sorts of things that will make it extremely hard for you to get through with the lesson. 

Any given day there will be students who come to me with requests to go to the bathroom/to get water/to fill ink/to borrow things from their siblings in another class, complaints about students sitting next to them, complaints about students across the room from them, complaints about lost things, students in class who’re more interested in looking out the window, students who have sneaked out of the school and are throwing stones at the classroom window from outside, students who will make noise by banging on the sides of the tables, students who will sing songs and quote movie dialogues (did I say that before?), students who will come to class late, students of other classes (which are unattended) standing at the classroom door or window; watching you, sometimes they will even enter my class without permission and disturb my own students, older students walking by the classroom whistling, singing and dancing, younger students coming in to ask us if we have the ‘stick’ or if we have the broom in our class, an interruption from one of the other teachers to ask for a kid’s assistance (read: run errands) and occasionally an interruption due to a parent who walks into the classroom looking for their child.

Note to self: Figure out ways to better deal with each of these distractions over winter break!